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After taking their lumps in the media and in the recent Senate Confirmation hearings on Gus Puryear, CCA has decided to publically attemp

Recently we told you that one of the editors at The Tennessean was suspended after Metro vice officers nabbed him in a sting at a hotel. We didn’t name the poor sap, because we figured he had his David Vitter moment and that was enough. Why humiliate the guy any further?

So this Bonna Johnson story about a sale at a Brentwood boutique can still be found on The Tennessean's website and, incredibly enough, it's tagged as a local news story.

This week I wrote about the Sonny Corleone of local journalism, none other than Tennessean editor Mark Silverman who recently hurled a newspaper at features editor Cindy Smith, though as far as we know he didn't pummel his brother-in law.

This week, staff writer Elizabeth Ulrich exposes the hypocrisy of the Southern Baptist Convention, which continues to bury its head in the sand about clergy sex abuse.

The Tennessean will NOT endorse a candidate in either the Democratic or Republican primary.
Where did this open-minded, dare I say, "Fair and Balanced" approach come?
A very cynical conservative reader, of the Tennessean's editorial content for 20 years, might suggest a less than rosy reason.

Yesterday, Mark Silverman, The Tennessean's vice president of content and audience development, who also serves as the paper's editor, regaled the paper's 32 readers about its resolutions for 2008.